But it requires custom hardware, firmware and access to your Wi-Fi DEF CON Hackers have managed to hack Amazon's Echo digital assistant and effectively turn it into a listening device, albeit through a complex and hard-to-reproduce approach.…

HP'S Omen range is coming on leaps and bounds every year, and the latest laptop in its arsenal is no exception. A significant upgrade to last year's model in terms of both looks and specs, the 15-inch model is reasonably priced, reasonably powerful and reasonably attractive. The Sun The HP Omen 15 is sleek, relatively light, and packs a decent punch[/caption] The Sun While the Omen does not give you key-level control over lighting, the zonal system works well[/caption] It does have a 4K-resolution option, but the 144Hz refresh rate 1080p screen we tested seemed perfect for it. The graphical performance running at 1080p was high enough to take advantage of that refresh rate, but only just. Bumping it up to 4K without a serious graphical hardware upgrade would be fools' errand. • HP OMEN 15.6 Inch Gaming Laptop (Intel i7-8750H, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB Plus 128 GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Graphics, 4 GB GDDR5 Dedicated, £999.99 – buy it now It's a remarkably solid beast, as one would hope for a laptop starting ...

Flaw in House Larry's flagship product allows 'complete compromise' of servers Oracle is advising customers to update their database software following the discovery and disclosure of a critical remote code execution vulnerability.…

Apps, kernels, virtual machines, SGX, SMM at risk from attack Intel will today disclose three more vulnerabilities in its processors that can be exploited by malware and malicious virtual machines to potentially steal secret information from computer memory.…

The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has threatened a boycott of US electronics in response to tensions over a US citizen imprisoned in Turkey. A couple of years ago Erdogan arrested a bunch of people after an apparent attempted coup and American Pastor Andrew Brunson was among them. He has been locked up since then and US President Donald Trump recently decided to increase the pressure on Erdogan to let him go, sanctioning a couple of politicians and increasing some tariffs, resulting in big falls in the value of the Turkish currency. Multiple media have reported Erdogan as saying the following at a press conference. "We will ...